Subject: Re: is Lisp used in text parsing and processing tasks?
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 14 Nov 2002 22:33:26 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3246302006301295@naggum.no>
* Henrik Motakef
| As opposed to conventions leading to clear names like cddddr, psetf,
| ldp, fboundp, or rplacd?
* Erik Naggum
| All crystal clear to me, except for `ldp´.
* Martti Halminen
| The original poster possibly meant ldb, which I believe was directly
| borrowed from PDP-10 assembler.
Yes, `dpb´ and `ldb´ are PDP-10 instructions, all right. I wish more
low-level instructions like this were available to Common Lisp
programmers. E.g., byte-swapping instructions and rotates.
However, you seem to have missed the potential for a humorous bent on
this. Complaining about cryptic names is one thing, but getting them
wrong when you do is inherently funny, at least in my book.
--
Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway
Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder.
Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.